Where did you go to college, and what was it like

Whatsamattah U.

NYU. Amazing but not the typical College experience. Instead of frat and quad parties we went to clubs in the meat packing district. Very gay.

Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Tx.. It's also a prison town and it feels cursed or something. I only went there to get a few credits and transfer into a better school. It was a terribly racist place but not in an overt way, they'd smile to your face when they were brimming with slow burn hatred. The fucking racists would wait to attack in the night by slashing tires and putting racist letters in the school newspaper and it got worse when the school got a Jewish dean. Fuck that town.

UCLA

I had fun because my part-time job was in food service for ASUCLA (Assoicated Students of ... ), and I was quickly drafted to work "training table" for the big three, men's athletic teams at the time (football, basketball, and track). .. That meant twice a day (breakfast and lunch) these jocks would show up at a private dining room set up for them to eat their food. Usually, the coaches would accompany them and they'd use the time to talk performance. Their food was all free to them; some of the guys were on special diets that we had to monitor (both to lose and gain weight). We'd wait on them like they were seated in a restaurant. Occasionally, we'd be asked if we could work dinner service since they sometimes had boosters (alumni) come in to meet and mix with the boys.

Beyond that, everything you may have ever heard about old glory holes at UCLA is probably true. I recently read that the infamous men's rooms in Royce Hall and the one in the basement of Haines Hall are still going strong. It was hard to ignore the one in Royce Hall, because I had so many classes in that building. Two of my English professors showed quite a bit of interest in me. I may have taken the bait, but neither of them were good-looking.

R2, that sounds like a blast to this provincial Midwesterner. I was too scared of crime to go to college in New York. This was in the Koch-Dinkins era of mid-day robberies and and the Central Park Jogger. Scary.

I ended up in Boston, instead, with a bunch of Massholes. One winter weekend walking back to campus from CVS, I heard a scream: "DYKE!"

Alas, it was a couple of townie Massholes in a pick-up truck.

To R4, did u suck & swallow any of the student athletes, trainers, coaches?

I went to a lot of schools. The one that finally gave me a degree was the University of Washington.

Why yes, I'd LOVE to post mportant personally identifiable information to a bunch of randos on anonymous forum! It seems like such a smart thing to do!

Northwestern, it was amazing!

The University of Phoenix!!

R1 also is a graduate of Potrzebie High.

Undergrad at McGill University in Montreal. It’s a large urban campus in the center of a fascinating, gay-affirming city. Other than the brutal winters, it was a great experience for me.

Hudson U., Class of '92--'04. Let me tell you, being a student here was more dangerous than being on the mean streets! Thank goodness I stayed in Briscoe Hall!

I went to Florida University at Cape Kennedy.

[Quote] Magna cum laude

Im usually ok with gay stuff but I don’t want to hear about how loud Magna is during sex! GROSS!!!!!

Loved Northwestern. Happiest years of my life.

Mizzou, San Francisco State, and USC. Had a great experience at each one.

Columbia is such a great town, like most midwestern college towns.

R2 I also went to NYU.

DePaul - eight years of night school. It was a second job.

Also Northwestern. So much sex and drinking. Trips into Chicago to go dancing: Berlin, Paradise, Warehouse. And an occasional classroom.

Good old Berlin. It had its moods, but it was a great Bar.

College of DuPage. I walked out in the middle of one of my classes, because I hated it. Instead I went to CNC school. The place where I worked sent me when I applied for the position. I needed the money so I could afford to live on my own. The place where I worked didn't want to send me. My night shift boss made them send me. Lol, he told me to sue them because it was discrimination. I was like " sue them?" I had just turned 19 and never thought of suing anyone. They thought I couldn't do it because I was a young woman. But, I did it and my pay went up! Then I taught other girls how to set up, break down, and run them. No big deal now, but in 1984 it was, for me.

Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge.

Starfleet Academy.

r15, I guess you don't want to hear about my MAGA cum loudly.

Any Wesleyan grads here?

Worcester and Cambridge, MA. It was the 70's so lots of sex and surprisingly few drugs.

We thought Worcester's greatest virtue was being an hour closer to New York.

Tulane. It was an incredible four years. Late 80’s/early 90’s.

Middlebury College

ohio state university in the mid-80's. Awful.

My original college was in Pennsylvania. I had a little fun on campus (I was the only gay guy in a dorm filled with football players and wrestlers) but for numerous reasons it wasn't a great experience and I left after a few semesters. I had such a bad time in HS I just wasn't academically prepared.

When I went back years later it was to a small liberal arts college outside of Chicago (not too far from R23's school). It was a good experience and I loved being there, though I was way too old to make friends with fellow students (though I am still friends with a few of my professors).

CSUDH. Pretty much like a glorified City or Community College. I felt like I never left Community College, it was just more expensive. Same Eucalyptus trees on campus, too. Worse parking. They do have a few cool Brutalist buildings but my CC did, too.

[quote]Also Northwestern. So much sex and drinking. Trips into Chicago to go dancing: Berlin, Paradise, Warehouse. And an occasional classroom.

Northwestern here, too, and the first gay bar I went to was Paradise.

Shiz University. It was magical. I was popular.

Cornell - grand and classic / Brown - chic and fun / Paris Sciences & Lettres - caustique et prétentieuse / EPFL (Lausanne) - stimulante et divertissante

I attended San Francisco State University, and was 41 when I completed my Bachelor's Degree. Among other reasons, I wanted to finish what I'd started at Southwestern College, (San Diego County), right out of high school

Columbia Law School

I didn't go to Pitt but I sure spent a lot of time in the Cathedral of Learning, wink wink.

Stanford.

Hated it. Filled with entitled, preppy, trust-fund scholar-athlete types who liked spending their days playing frisbee golf, declaring that reading books was for weirdos and intellectuals, and talking about what they were going to save the world with the gazillions of dollars they were going to make when the company they intended to found went public.

the poor checks in.

[Quote] Any Wesleyan grads here?

The kid from Star Trek TNG started his own college???

One of the better-rated state schools in Texas.

Took me forever to graduate, as I lived on my own and was juggling a job and a half.

CUNY Queens College. Was simply to get a degree to get in the door of corporate.

The place now turns out Rhodes Scholars which blows my mind.

Alexandria. They had a bitchin library

St Olaf Agricultural Academy

oy!!!

I liked Middlebury College so much it took me six years to graduate.

I really wish I would have came out during college. I had a lot of fun but also a lot of misery.

R29, And your Alma Mater rocks!

🎶 "He's so fine!

(Tulane, Tulane, Tulane)" 🎶

[quote] Northwestern here, too, and the first gay bar I went to was Paradise.

Detail: Paradise’s heyday was circa 1983

Cal.

Nothing like r40’s experience. Berkeley was a trip, in the best way.

Another Northwestern alum—got my BS, MA, PhD there. Hated it my first year, then found some wonderful teachers in a small dey(6 faculty, about 40 undergraduate majors) and fell in love with it.

I tried…I REALLY did!

Temple University

Stanford.

I loved it. Great climate. Great campus. Lots to do. Close to SF. I hung out with the artists and the bohemians and ignored the budding tech bros who wanted to become startup billionaires.

R13 😂 I love you.

Berkeley during the same time as DL favs Aaron Rodgersj, Brianna Keilar, and Chris Prine

^^^ Wow, two of the three are known cocksuckers…and not the broadcaster.

Did you get any?

Ohio State for grad school 1986-93. I’ll see Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning and raise you William Oxley Thompson (Main) Library. 😈

What is now known as University of the Fraser Valley (UFV). I attended when it was University College of the Fraser Valley (UCFV) from 1998 to the mid aughts. I was directionless and unmotivated with undiagnosed learning disabilities; prior to that it was a speck of a campus called Fraser Valley College. Finally clued in that getting a bachelor's degree in anything wasn't going to happen so I earned a pharmacy tech certificate instead.

During my 2 week practicuum we dispensed more Tylenol #3 and metformin (the first line medication for treating high blood sugar in stable diabetes) than I thought humanly possible.

I took a 1960s pop culture course with this bright talented young thing. I had an enormous crush on Billy (Christie) Pettinger. She was an 18 year old Punk kid at the time in a band called The Blue Collar Bullets. I was 20. I screwed my courage to the wall and asked her out. She gently declined.

Pride meetings eventually got me a little action so there was that.

SOAS. It was interesting.

CWRU - TOTAL sausage fest! there were 19 fraternities to three sororities! problematic for a closeted little homo like me

Harvard in the 70s. In my freshmen year, the university went co-ed, causing agita among creaky old alums. It was also the days of Vietnam protests and there was occasional tear gas wafting through Cambridge when it wasn't the odor of pot. It seemed to me that everyone I met was the best of something. The national handball champion. The kid from the richest family in Maine. Yo Yo Ma. You get the idea.

What did you study there, R62?

Temple U, Philly - late 80's. Fun!

NYU, mid aughts.

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Loved it.

Yale. Lots of closeted cock.

R43, I'm guessing either UT-Dallas, Texas Tech or Houston. Because if the state school you went to was UT-Austin or A&M, you would make sure to let us know.

It was Junior College and 2 hour bus trip each way.

It was midsize town in the center of a Midwest state. Several well known comedic television entertainers were alums, as well as a reality TV star who came out and has been talked about on this site. The surrounding area is known for insurance, and has a manufacturing plant for an electric vehicle maker known for their EV trucks.

NYU, early 1980's. What a great place to be young and gay.

And as much as I 'explored' in that wild gay, urban environment, I was still pretty reserved.

True of all of us, no matter where: but If I knew then what I know now, I would have had an even more incredible adventure (assuming I'd survive).

R68 Lived and worked in Madison for several years and holy fuck, there was a neverending stream of horny college guys that I hooked up with in those years.

Like shooting fish in a barrel!

Madison is a beautiful town but I only say this as someone who’s visited as a stopping point on several road trips.

R59 I got a handful of Aaron's ass after the big game win against Stanford when we rushed the field

Wayne State

UMASS AMHERST!!!

R62 Modern and Classical Chinese with Linguistics.

R75 It really is, some parts of downtown and some of the things like the Arboretum are amazing.

Harvard in the late 70s/early 80s. Still haunted by the Vietnam era. Otherwise, just like Love Story

After Northwestern, I attended Wharton School at Penn for my MBA-JD.

OMG!! The men. Penn, Drexel, Center City and Temple University. Temple U. was "one-big Homosexual Orgy" after 1984.

Undergrad at Portland State and Vassar, grad at McGill and NYU. So much time and effort and money wasted! The way we educate people in this country is crazy.

(I did like Vassar a lot (even then though the price was absurd. Thanks for covering the bill, dad!) but as a transfer student I was outside the social networks that had formed two years before)

Vassar. It was top drawer. Except for one incident.

Bunny Bixler and I were in the semi-finals - the very semi-finals, mind you - of the ping-pong tournament at the club and this ghastly thing happened. We were both playing way over our heads and the score was 29-28. And we had this really terrific volley and I stepped back to get this really terrific shot. And I stepped on the ping-pong ball! I just squashed it to bits. And then Bunny and I ran to the closet of the game room to get another ping-pong ball and the closet was locked! Imagine? We had to call the whole thing off. Well, it was ghastly. Well, it was just ghastly.

I didn’t get into my first choice, WPI and ended up going to a local U-Mass campus as a commuter student while living with my parents. I quit after a year and worked in my dad’s dive bar for a while.

My second attempt at college was at a U Mass campus at the other end of the state. I spent two very drunken semesters barely attending and classes.

Finally, I ran away to San Francisco for the gay and dot com stuff and only completed my degree over the past two years, exclusively online.

The last college experience was my favorite and most successful.

Gloria, we know you barely made it through Sarah Lawrence.

I wish I could have gone to Radcliffe too....father wouldnt hear of it...

Pine Valley University When I went though it was the Pine Valley Academy for Women.